Family Skeletons by Josie Malone

Author:Josie Malone [Malone, Josie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781953735072
Publisher: Melange Books, LLC

Chapter Twenty

That became their pattern over the next three days, working during the day and talking in the early evening. She went to the school arriving on time, carefully dressing for success, and not telling Maureen Evans what the parameters were for student teachers from her university. Dr. Dunaway hadn’t returned her call, but Sully decided it didn’t matter yet since she hadn’t been put in the proverbial Catch-22 situation and didn’t have to refuse to substitute teach at Lake Maynard Middle High.

She told Tate a little about the dinner with Bianca and Dak, promising to introduce the pair to him when he visited. Sully shared more about the lessons she’d taught, adhering to the classroom procedures modeled by her mentor teacher. Vocabulary games weren’t allowed which made it difficult to teach the Greek roots of words. Neither were exit slips when the students left the room so she couldn’t assess what they’d learned in the daily lessons. Reading was done by rote and so were the worksheets she had to grade. When he asked, she admitted she hadn’t met many of the other teachers because lunch periods were so short, but said she hoped to do so before her practicum ended.

Late Thursday afternoon, she took notes while Maureen lectured about the shortcomings in her classroom management style. Since the older woman usually left the room as soon as the bell rang, it was a mystery how she knew what was taught during the various classes. Sully opted not to ask, instead murmuring, “I’ll do better tomorrow.”

“Fridays are half days,” Maureen announced. “The students will perform presentations in front of their classes and be graded by you and their peers.”

“What presentations?” Sully asked. “They haven’t had time to prepare.”

“They do it as homework. They’ll act out the next two episodes of the Odyssey and you’ll enter their grades afterward.”

“Is there a rubric for that?”

“You can make one for them tonight and have the TAs get copies in the office tomorrow before school starts.” Maureen folded her arms. In the gray suit with poofy, gray hair, she looked more like a children’s toy troll than ever. “Any questions?”

Sully leaned back in her chair, hoping her eagerness at an early escape from the high school and Maureen’s environs didn’t show. “What time do we finish tomorrow since it’s a half-day?”

“The students go home at ten-thirty. Why?”

“My husband doesn’t have a weekend pass yet. If I leave early, I’ll avoid rush-hour and be back at the base before traffic gets bad.”

“I’ll see what I can do.”

The older woman left the room so quickly that Sully didn’t have time to thank her. There were plenty of assignments to grade, but she took the time to remove her phone from the school bag and check for messages. She spotted two from Tate and hit the speaker button so she could hear what he had to say while she worked.

His deep voice rumbled in the empty classroom, brightening the afternoon. “Hey, Mrs. Murphy, your battalion Command

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